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Social

Runners

Nomadic

Women worked a lot because men were constantly in search of food

Huts made out of mud, animal skins and brush

Became extinct at an early date

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Political:

One big tribe was broken up

into small nomadic tribes

Shaman as their medical

and spiritual leader

Economic

Hunt and forage

Geographic

Gulf Coast, Southern Texas, Northern Mexico

One of the poorest regions

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Jun 15, 2010 - The now-extinct Karankawa Indians played an important role in the early ... established, although it is generally believed to mean "dog-lovers" or "dog-raisers." That translation seems plausible, since the Karankawas reportedly kept .... authorities with extensive information about the Texas coastaltribes.

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Political

Each small band led by a chief

Economic

Used dugout canoes to fish

traded and hunted small game

Geographic

Gulf coast
Political

Each small band led by a chief

Economic

Used dugout canoes to fish

traded and hunted small game

Geographic

Gulf coast

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The Atakapa /əˈtɑːkəpə/ are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, who ... Within the tribe, the Ishak identified as "The Sunrise People" or "The Sunset ... Some culturally distinct Atakapan people survived into the 20th century. .... inhabit the nation called Atacapas [sic], that is, Man-Eaters

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Political

Small bands that moved loosely to find food

No overall chief

Economic

Fish, hunters and gatherers, trade

Geographic

East Texas, West Louisiana

Social

Lived in small lodges made out of grass and reeds

Oyster legend: man said to have been cast up from sea in an oyster shell

European diseases led to extinction

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The Caddo were farmers who lived in East Texas. There were two main groups of the Caddo in Texas. One major Caddo tribe was the Kadohadacho. The Kadohadacho lived in large villages along the Red river near the present day Oklahoma - Arkansas border.

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Geographic

Northeast Texas (around

the Red River), Oklahoma, Louisiana

Social

Traced family line through the mother (matriarchal)

Tejas confederacy is where we got our state’s name, which means “those who are friends”

Beehive grass huts

Ceremonies and rituals included giant burial mounds and spiritual temples

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The Caddo were farmers who lived in East Texas. There were two main groups of the Caddo in Texas. One major Caddo tribe was the Kadohadacho. The Kadohadacho lived in large villages along the Red river near the present day Oklahoma - Arkansas border.

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Political

Led by an inherited chief (caddi)

Made political decisions such as when to go to war or share ceremonial peace pipe

Kin-based groups or bands organized into confederacies

Councils

Economic

Farm, tanners, and trade

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This kidnapping for ransom would later get the Comanche in big trouble with the American ... To move into this area the Comanches first had to drive these other tribes out. ... After the war or raid the chief would quit and each band would go back to its own leaders. ... Often they would cover hundreds of miles in one year.

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Political

Each band led by an elected chief

Warriors elected a war chief for each campaign

Economic

Hunted buffalo, elk and bear

Collected wild plants, but did not farm

Geographic

Central Plains and Great Plains regions

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The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache. Distant cousins of the Apache are the Navajo, with which they share the .... Most commonly, Europeans learned to identify the tribes by translating their

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The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache. Distant cousins of the Apache are the Navajo, with which they share the .... Most commonly, Europeans learned to identify the tribes by translating their

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APACHES(translates into “Navajo” or "Enemy")

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APACHES(translates into “Navajo” or "Enemy")

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Political

Family bands loosely organized under a chief

Chief proved himself by age, skill, and wisdom

Economic

Hunted buffalo, deer, and wild turkeys

Small gardens used to trade

Geographic

Great Plains and some in Mountains and Basins of west Texas

Social

Tepees and some lived in lodges

clothes of buffalo & deer

Superstitious

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The Comanche Indians are a group of Native American Indians who call themselves Numinu, meaning "the people". They originally lived in the Great Plains region and it is a little known fact but, they were actually considered to be a branch of the Northern Shoshone Indian tribe.

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Political

Family bands loosely organized under a chief

Chief proved himself by age, skill, and wisdom

Economic

Hunted buffalo, deer, and wild turkeys

Small gardens used to trade

Geographic

Great Plains

Social

Tepees made of buffalo hides

clothes too

Fierce warriors

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The Rio Grande branch of the Jumanos were Puebloan Indians and they lived in Puebloan style villages. The Pueblos along the Rio Grande north and south of modern El Paso from the Tompiro Pueblo down to La Junta and smaller villages along the Rio Concho in Old Mexico formed the core area of historicJumano culture.

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Political

Each village led by a chief who settled problems

Don’t know how traders governed

Economic

Group 1: hunter-gatherers & traded

Group 2: farmed in large villages - along the Rio Grande

Geographic --> West Texas

Social

Lived in homes called pueblos, made from adobe

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COAHUILTECAN INDIANS. COAHUILTECAN INDIANS. The lowlands of northeastern Mexico and adjacent southern Texas were originally occupied by hundreds of small, autonomous, distinctively named Indian groups that lived by hunting and gathering.

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Political:

One big tribe was broken up

into small nomadic tribes

Shaman as their medical

and spiritual leader

Economic

Hunt and forage

Geographic

Gulf Coast, Southern Texas, Northern Mexico

One of the poorest regions

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Ysleta del Sur Pueblo (also Tigua Pueblo) is a Puebloan Native American tribal entity in the Ysleta section of El Paso, Texas. Its members are Southern Tiwa people who had been displaced from Spanish New Mexico in 1680-1681 during the Pueblo Revolt against the Spaniards.

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Political

Led by a chief who also served as a medicine man

Chief settled problems

Chief advised by a governor, war chief, and four captains

Economic

Farmed vegetables

Hunted small game

Geographic

El Paso area

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They obtained food by a combination of hunting, fishing, and gathering. ... Karankawas were known for their distinctive physical appearance. ... cannibalism that involved eating the flesh of their traditional enemies.

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Political

Each small band led by a chief

Economic

Used dugout canoes to fish

traded and hunted small game

Geographic

Gulf coast